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This question is way deeper and more contentious than you might think, but I can narrow it down to a couple of solid answers, and I'll list several other possible responses as well.A lot of people will say that punk began in 1977, but that is only when the term that described it became widespread (Punk magazine, which helped establish the term, was founded in 1975). The style had already existed for some time, though.Before continuing, I should establish what makes a band punk. People have been playing badass music that defied expectations and rubbed against the grain of popular music and culture for a very long time but punk was a specific sound and specific movement so before we go arguing that Beethoven was the first, we need to establish what punk was and what it wasn't (I don't say is and isn't because I feel that the music that gets labeled as punk today is too far separated from the original movement to benefit the definition).Punk was a movement within Rock and Roll music. Anything before Little Richard and Chuck Berry is out.Punk was not trying to do something totally new. In an odd way, it was actually a conservative musical movement: a return to the primitive Rock and Roll of the 50s. In the 60s, artists like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton sparked the rise of wild and experimental rock and by the early 70s everyone was recording seven minute guitar solos on every album. The pioneers of Punk felt that rock was drifting away from its roots and falling out of touch with its original audience. Punk was a return to the 3 minute pop song. Fast guitar, a few verses, maybe a brief and driving solo. No Moby Dick style drum foolery. Many bands were done with the show in under an hour.Musically speaking, Punk was by and large basic Rock and Roll. Basic beat, basic guitar, basic chords. What separated it from Buddy Holly were the vocals, stage performance, and distortion. If we look at The Sex Pistols, whose brief existence most people regard as the definition of Punk, they were pretty much just simple generic rock except for Johnny Rotten’s vocals and the way they looked on stage. It was also defined by a philosophy: a new rejection of the parent’s generation and focused effort on being what old people hated.Not every Punk band followed those rules closely (Punk was all about breaking the rules) but they help give a structure and definition to the movement.You will hear the term “proto-punk” used often because the early roots of what would become Punk were very different from what came after them. Two bands that were not punk but had an undeniable influence were the Kinks and the Velvet Underground. The Kinks were a Rock and Roll band that pushed the genre into more of a driven and hard edged existence, but they were still a rock band. The Velvet Underground were present in New York for the birth of Punk and most of its pioneers were huge fans. Lou Reed was a mentor to many of the early artists and he pushed the limits of what you could write songs about with stuff like Heroin. Many histories of Punk, including Legs McNeil’s oral history Please Kill Me (which is the primary source for this answer) start with Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. That said, trying to claim that the music that they made was Punk is just wrong, much like calling Robert Johnson Rock and Roll.I would argue that Punk began in 1969 with the Stooges. This wild outfit from Detroit was the first to mix all the elements that led to the birth of the movement in the ways that defined the genre. Iggy Pop’s stage performance was wild unlike anything before it. Their debut self-titled album remains about as Punk as it gets, and I would argue that I Wanna Be Your Dog is still the most complete representation of the movement that exists. For anyone who doubts that they ought to be considered Punk, I present their 1970 Cincinnati performance.I love that it comes complete with commentary from some old dude talking about how he doesn't understand kids these days, but between Iggy crawling around the stage on all fours and literally standing on top of the crowd and smearing himself with peanut butter, which he also threw at random into the crowd (and which was apparently handed to him by Stiv Bators, who would go on to be the frontman of the Dead Boys), it is impossible to deny that this was different than either the Kinks or the Underground. This was the kind of wild nihilistic debauchery that made grown ups call people punks.The only reason why the Stooges might not be considered Punk would be that they didn't always keep rule #2. Many of their tracks are extended enough to cross the three minute mark several times over and sometimes had long guitar solos. Like I said, though, Punk was about breaking the rules, not keeping them. Anyone who kept the rules in mind when writing or performing was decidedly not Punk.The bands and artists that followed in the wake of the Stooges made music that sounded more like the definitive Punk noise we recognize today. Patti Smith, Television, The New York Dolls, and the Ramones all have the right to claim a piece of early punk history. They were the bridge between the Stooges and the revolution.There is, however, one band that fit the Punk bill perfectly and predated all of it. The only reason they are not regarded as the original Punk band is that no one in either New York or London during the birth of the movement had ever heard of them. Nonetheless, they perfectly exemplified all three of the rules more perfectly than almost anyone else.In Peru, in 1965, there was a band that very few people have ever heard of today called Los Saicos. That's right, Peru. If you want to hear what could easily be called the first truly Punk track ever recorded, here it is:Demolicion hits every box as far as what defines Punk. Basic 50s Rock and Roll intro, until the vocals come in. And then “DADADADADADADADA YAA YAA YAA YAA” hits you in the face. My Spanish is pretty weak but I know enough to understand that the whole song is about how much fun it is to destroy a train station.It had no influence whatsoever on the birth of Punk, but I have to say that I think one small Peruvian band seems to have invented the style on their own. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

Officially, the last episode, "Things Change", aired on January 16th, 2006. However, there were still reruns airing for a while after that, and in September 15th, 2006, the TV movie Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo had aired on Cartoon Network. I will just give a summary of both.Things ChangeAfter the episodes "Calling All Titans" and "Titans Together", in which the Titans, both permanent and honorary, take down the Brotherhood of Evil, the Titans come back to Jump City, noticing how their city has changed since their absence. Beast Boy goes to where Terra's statue usually is, but finds that her statue is missing. Beast Boy eventually finds Terra as a student in a school, and tries to get her memories back, but to no avail. While this Terra is initially scared at first, it seems that they eventually become friends.Trouble in TokyoA ninja named Saico-Tek attacks Jump City, and the Titans capture and interrogate him. Before he escapes, Robin finds out that Saico-Tek works for Brushogun. The Titans head to Tokyo, Japan, to find Brushogun.While the other Titans(especially Beast Boy) want to stay in Tokyo for a vacation, Robin reminds them that their primary purpose for visiting Tokyo is to deal with Brushogun. The Titans meet Commander Daizo and his defense force, the Tokyo troopers. Daizo claims that Brushogun is only a legend.Since they have nothing to do, the Titans enjoy themselves in Tokyo, getting into some misadventures, while Starfire tries to get some one-on-one alone time with Robin, who is still stuck on finding Brushogun. He tuns into Saico-Tek, and seems to have killed him, resulting into his arrest by Daizo, who gets warrants out for the rest of the Titans. Eventually, Robin escapes the police and meets up with the others. They find information on the legend of Brushogun, and deduce that he is hiding in the manga publishing factory.Daizo reveals that he had captured Brushogun, and had used his powers to create the Tokyo Troopers, making him Tokyo's hero. Brushogun sent Saico-Tek to provoke the Titans into coming to Tokyo and free him from his prison. Daizo throws himself into some ink, and becomes an ink monster, which the Titans destroy by removing Brushogun from the monster. Brushogun fades away, thanking the Titans, and Daizo is defeated.Also, Robin and Starfire kiss.The Titans are awarded medals by Tokyo's mayor, and Robin decides to listen to the others, and they take a vacation in Tokyo.